Re: restoring database - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From scott.marlowe
Subject Re: restoring database
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0312221052260.30417-100000@css120.ihs.com
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In response to Re: restoring database  (Theodore Petrosky <tedpet5@yahoo.com>)
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Theodore Petrosky wrote:

> As I am not someone with a lot of experience....
> (depending on the size of the 'dumpall') I would
> create a new database to suck up the 'all' then
> pg_dump the table I really cared about. 
> 
> Obviously, if the dump_all is a terabyte database this
> method is inconvenient.... (to say the least).
> 
> However it will work.

In the past I've used 

'cat -n filename'|grep -4 database

to find the starting points of individual databases etc... and then used 
split to break it into the exact right size pieces to do this.



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